2026-09-24 12:39:30The high-pitched, mental shriek of the starlight alarm vibrated directly through the vacuum of the Star-Strand, echoing like glass shattering inside the skulls of every living entity within five miles.
On the deck of the listing Iron Sovereign, Lin Xue pressed her palms hard against her temples, a trickle of dark blood seeping past her fingertips as her wind-affinity Qi buckled under the weight of the incoming psychic wave. "Lu Chen! The fortress cannons are tracking us!" she screamed into her fading air bubble. "They’re drawing power directly from the Star-Strand’s main river-conduit!" Across the void, the three-mile-wide skull of the ancient cosmic beast began to violently shift. The massive golden arrays embedded within its hollow eye-sockets whirred, the light turning from a passive gold into a blinding, hyper-concentrated white heat. The surrounding cosmic skiffs immediately pulled back, their silver hulls flashing as they cleared the firing lines. Lu Chen did not retreat to the safety of the shattered command bridge. He took three slow steps forward, stepping directly off the iron prow of his dead warship into the empty space of the Greater Heavenly Domain. The natural laws of gravity did not apply to him. Having broken through to the First Layer of the Ascendant Divine Stage, his physical body generated its own gravitational sphere. The raw cosmic debris and drifting star-dust in the void were subtly drawn inward toward his chest, forming a miniature ring of spinning rock around his black animal-skin tunic. "You call this a customs toll," Lu Chen’s voice resonated directly within the minds of the fortress defenders, his flat, layered tone carrying the weight of a collapsing mountain. "I call it an open vault." BOOM! The twin eye-sockets of the colossal skull-fortress detonated simultaneously. Two massive, hundred-yard-wide pillars of pure, condensed starlight tore through the vacuum. The incoming energy didn't just illuminate the dark; it was so dense it physically warped the fabric of the dimension, trailing lines of cracked space-crystals in its wake as it rushed to vaporize the rusted iron hull of the flagship and the rogue standing before it. Lu Chen didn't raise his hands to parry. He simply opened the internal gates of his Void Sun. The Devouring Maw opened on a celestial, planetary scale. Instead of fighting the white-hot starlight beams, he forced the black singularity inside his chest to expand its perimeter to three hundred yards. Space itself directly in front of the floating skull-fortress violently caved inward, forming an absolute, light-eating black hole. The twin pillars of condensed starlight didn't incinerate his flesh; the moment the high-planar energy touched the outer boundary of his gravity field, its elemental laws were forcefully crushed, stripped of their council signatures, and violently dragged straight into his palms. Vrrr—! The immense suction didn't stop at the incoming attack. The vacuum created by his mutated Ascendant core reached right past the firing lines, locking onto the primary power lines of the fortress itself. A horrific spectacle unfolded in the void. The massive golden arrays inside the beast's skull began to violently crack, the thousands of tons of refined starlight fuel stored within its bone cavities being forcefully pulled out of the eye-sockets in a roaring, reverse river of liquid light that flowed straight down Lu Chen's wide, reinforced meridians. "What... what kind of heretical void is this?!" a telepathic scream echoed from the fortress command center. "He is digesting the Star-Strand's main battery! Cut the river-conduit lines! Disconnect the core!" "Too late," Lu Chen whispered, his voice a low, terrifying promise of absolute destruction. He closed the mile-wide gap between his body and the fortress in a single fraction of a millisecond. Moving like a flash of black lightning, he crashed heavily onto the bony forehead of the giant skull-fortress. The impact didn't just shatter the ancient bone armor; a radial shockwave of pure, localized gravity exploded from his bare feet, instantly causing the silver-hulled patrol skiffs anchored to the ramparts to violently buckle and cave inward. He drove his bare right hand straight into the skull's central bone plate, his fingers hardened into a flawless, metallic marble texture. He executed the reverse command of the Shattered Mirror Technique directly into the fortress's primary refinery room below the bone. The massive, golden-crimson reservoir of cosmic energy he had just vacuumed from the cannons exploded outward from his knuckles in a wave of solid emerald needles. BOOM! The internal detonation was catastrophic. The three-mile-wide skull of the cosmic beast violently fractured from the inside out, massive pieces of calcified bone tearing apart into a hail of sharp shrapnel that rocketed into the void. The entire starlight storage vault exploded in a spectacular flash of white and crimson heat, completely liquidating the hundred elite solid-light soldiers inside before they could even draw their space-crystal rapiers. Lu Chen stood tall amidst the floating debris of the shattered fortress, his chest heaving as the massive harvest of refined starlight settled heavily into his belly. The sheer volume of the high-planar energy, combined with the residual strength of Officer Jaro's team, forced his Void Sun to compress and expand simultaneously, locking his anchor firmly at the Second Layer of the Ascendant Divine Stage. He reached into the smoking ruins of the primary command console floating near his boots, his bare hand grabbing a glowing, hexagonal chunk of pure starlight-crystal—the fortress’s auxiliary Star-Core Propulsion Unit. He leapt back through the void, landing softly on the deck of the Iron Sovereign. He slammed the pulsing star-core directly into the empty slot of the shattered helmsman's core. Thrum—! The network of rusted copper pipes and dead organic veins across the entire flagship instantly flared to life, glowing with a brilliant, translucent silver light as the warship was forcefully integrated with the high-planar power source. The iron propellers at the stern roared with an unnatural, cosmic resonance, the flagship ready to sail through the space-currents at a supersonic velocity. Lu Chen pulled his tattered burlap hood back over his pitch-black eyes, which were now twin pools of spinning void sparking with black lightning. He looked toward the deep, winding lines of the Star-Strand conduit stretching further into the Greater Heavenly Domain. "The toll is paid, Lin Xue," Lu Chen growled, his voice carrying the absolute, chilling authority of an ascendant god. "The warship has its heart. Tell the system to map the path to their capital. We are going to turn their council off." ------------------------------
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Chapter 47 Forged in Fire and Void
The central chamber of the Star-Ship Foundry descended into a chaotic symphony of violence and creation. Colossal steam-powered gantry cranes whined under the weight of massive, four-inch-thick hull plates forged from dark Void-Iron—a rare, density-defying metal that could withstand the crushing gravity of the higher planes. Thousands of multi-limbed Iron-Weaver blacksmiths swarmed the split-open chassis of the Iron Sovereign, their heavy hammers raining a continuous shower of blinding orange sparks onto the deck.Lu Chen sat cross-legged at the absolute center of the exposed hull, directly above the ship's pulsing star-core. He had discarded his torn burlap cloak. His bare, marble-dense chest was a network of glowing, pitch-black cosmic veins that directly mirrored the newly installed copper conduits of the warship."The ship’s skeletal framework cannot handle the sheer kinetic feedback of the Primordial Dreadnought Schema [1.1]!" Forge-Master Vulcan roared from the elevated gantr
Chapter 46 The Star-Ship Foundry
The Iron Sovereign tore through the glowing stellar highways of the Star-Strand conduit like a comet forged of rusted iron and raw malice [1.1]. Powered by the stolen Star-Core Propulsion Unit [1.1], the flagship’s auxiliary copper lines hummed at a violent, bone-rattling frequency, illuminating the dark vacuum with a brilliant, translucent silver radiance [1.1].Up on the primary command bridge, Lin Xue frantically managed the hexagonal emerald crystal communication device she had looted from Officer Jaro [1.1]. A dense grid of translucent green data slips projected into the air before her, mapping out the local celestial sector."Lu Chen! The destruction of the skull-fortress has triggered a total lockdown across the Northern Star-Strand!" she shouted, her voice thick with static as she filtered the cosmic radiation. "The Ascendant Council of the True Void has deployed an entire sector patrol fleet. Seven silver-hulled dreadnoughts are already locking onto our warp-trail. If we s
Chapter 45 The Skull of the True Void
The high-pitched, mental shriek of the starlight alarm vibrated directly through the vacuum of the Star-Strand, echoing like glass shattering inside the skulls of every living entity within five miles.On the deck of the listing Iron Sovereign, Lin Xue pressed her palms hard against her temples, a trickle of dark blood seeping past her fingertips as her wind-affinity Qi buckled under the weight of the incoming psychic wave. "Lu Chen! The fortress cannons are tracking us!" she screamed into her fading air bubble. "They’re drawing power directly from the Star-Strand’s main river-conduit!"Across the void, the three-mile-wide skull of the ancient cosmic beast began to violently shift. The massive golden arrays embedded within its hollow eye-sockets whirred, the light turning from a passive gold into a blinding, hyper-concentrated white heat. The surrounding cosmic skiffs immediately pulled back, their silver hulls flashing as they cleared the firing lines.Lu Chen did not retreat to
Chapter 44 The Star-Strand Toll
The sensation of planar ascension did not feel like riding a gentle cloud; it felt as if a colossal iron hammer was continuously pounding Lu Chen’s physical vessel into a thin sheet of gold foil.The colorless pillar of light from the Planar Nexus Gate shot through the atmospheric boundaries of his mortal world, dragging the Iron Sovereign upward into the deep, freezing void of the Greater Heavenly Domain. The ship’s iron hull violently buckled, its thick plates groaning and emitting high-pitched shriek-like sounds as the atmospheric pressure completely vanished, replaced by a harsh, suffocating vacuum.CRACK.The mechanical Helmsman’s Core on the primary bridge instantly imploded, unable to handle the alien, highly concentrated ambient Qi of the higher planes. The flagship gave a heavy, lifeless lurch, its massive iron propellers grinding to a complete halt as it drifted into the orbital ring of a colossal, glowing cosmic river-conduit known as the Star-Strand.Lin Xue lay flat
Chapter 43 The Horizon of the Void
The shattered fragments of the Prismatic Throne lay scattered across the black jade floor plates like frozen starlight, completely drained of the solar fire that had kept the continent enslaved for generations [1.1]. The grand imperial vault, once the absolute center of the world's wealth, was now a silent, shadow-drenched tomb. The only light remaining in the entire Sovereign Holy Land was the violent, crackling golden-crimson lightning leaking from Lu Chen’s skin [1.1].Lin Xue stepped through the dust of the ruined gold-leafed archway, her wind-affinity Qi swirling in slow, heavy currents around her boots [1.1]. She didn't look at the piles of gray ash that had once been the Seven Sun-Kings [1.1]. Her green eyes were fixed entirely on the youth standing at the edge of the empty throne platform."The high kingdoms are completely silent, Lu Chen," she said, her voice carrying a deep, layered exhaustion that echoed off the broken black pillars. "The communication lines are dead, th
Chapter 42 The Vault of the False Heavens
The central capital of the Sovereign Holy Land did not resemble a mortal city anymore. Deprived of the grand refinery’s strategic ether, the massive jade palaces and ivory towers that once floated high above the clouds had lost their anti-gravity fields [1.1]. They had plummeted out of the sky, crashing into the lower plazas in a cataclysmic rain of shattered emerald masonry and white marble dust [1.1].The Iron Sovereign glided through the dark, cloud-chrouded ruins of the upper tiers, its heavy hull navigating a landscape of absolute devastation.Up on the primary command deck, Lin Xue stood by the shattered brass console. The Grand Sect Alignment Registry pulsed weakly in her hand, its blue ink fading fast [1.1]. She looked at the colossal golden mountain at the center of the ruins—the Imperial Zenith Palace—which had miraculously remained anchored to the bedrock by hundreds of massive gray bone chains."The high kings are dead or fleeing, Lu Chen," Lin Xue said, her voice shak
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